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My name is Joshua, I am your host, and today we're going to talk about why I don't miss investing in the stock market.

Now you should have a little bit of context though.

The reason why I think this is interesting is that I have

for almost all of my adult life been invested in the stock market and not only

that I spent a significant amount of my career helping other people to invest in the stock market.

I've been a licensed securities broker, I have managed money, I have billed fees and charged fees based upon managing people's money, and yet at the time of this recording of this show, I do not currently own any publicly traded mutual funds, and I don't currently own any publicly traded mutual funds. I don't currently own any publicly traded

securities, although I'll expand and share with you a little bit of some additional texture

behind that. But today I want to talk about what I don't miss about investing in the stock

market. If we look back and we think about kind of where we are as a people, the stock market is a big big part of our lives you know right now stock market up down every single way

It just seems like no matter how you go through it every single day. There's more headlines and the stock market is driving

almost everything. And yet I've become convinced the longer I've been a financial plan of that I've become more and more convinced

that the stock market is not for everyone.

And so what I want to do in today's show is I want to share with you some details as to some of the

ideas that I used to hold about in stock investing that I don't hold any longer as well as share with you

kind of where I'm at and I need to just go ahead and give you the whole story from the beginning

which is fairly simple.

Right now, as I record this right now, I'm not sure where I'll wind up being over the long term.

I'm not sure whether I'll wind up going back into the stock markets or staying out of the stock market.

I've been wrestling with that for quite a while, trying to think about different solutions.

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